Akbulak (Russia)

settlement Akbulak Акбулак Federal district Volga Oblast Orenburg Rajon Akbulakski Founded 1904 Settlement since 1999 population 13,918 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35335 Post Code 461550, 461551 License Plate 56 OKATO 53 205 801 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 0 '  N , 55 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '20 "  N , 55 ° 37' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Orenburg Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Akbulak ( Russian Акбула́к ) is a settlement in the Orenburg Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,918 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the steppe , 40 km from the border with Kazakhstan , 3 km from the right bank of the left Ural tributary Ilek and almost 100 km as the crow flies in a south-south-east direction from the Orenburg oblast administrative center.

Akbulak is the administrative center of the Rajons Akbulakski and seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Akbulakski possowet, which in addition to Akbulak nor the four located to the southeast settlements Schulaksu (8 km), Kulaksai (15 km) and at the railway stations Rasjesd no. 29 ( 7 km, near Shulaksu) and Rasjesd No. 30 (14 km, near Kulaksai) belong.

history

The place was created in 1904 in connection with the construction of the Orenburg  - Tashkent railway , the first connection between the European and Central Asian parts of the Russian Empire , around a railway station to be built. The station and correspondingly the settlement were initially to be given the Russian name Karamsino , but the Turkic ( Kazakh ) name Ak-Bulak, something like "white spring", after a nearby brook, became commonplace. The section via Ak-Bulak went into operation in 1905, the entire 1,800-kilometer route to Tashkent in 1906.

The place became a regional center by resettlers from the Volga region , central Russia and the Ukraine before the First World War and from April 12, 1921, for the first time, the administrative seat of a Rajon named after him within the Akyubinsk Governorate of the first Kyrgyz ASSR . The Rajon was converted into a Ujesd on July 5, 1922 and dissolved in January 1924.

On January 17, 1928, the Rajon was restored, now in the Okrug Aktyubinsk of the autonomous republic, now renamed the Kazakh ASSR , part of the Russian SFSR .

When the Orenburg Oblast was founded on December 7, 1934, the Ak-Bulakski rajon came to this, and remained with the Russian SFSR when the Kazakh ASSR was converted into an SSR as a result of the 1936 constitution . In 1937 Ak-Bulak received urban-type settlement status.

In the 1960s, the current spelling of the place name prevailed. In 1999 the place was downgraded to a (rural) settlement like a number of others in the Orenburg Oblast.

Population development

year	Residents
1920	3,564
1939	10,728
1959	14,742
1970	14,570
1979	12,756
1989	13,152
2002	14,801
2010	13,918

Note: from 1939 census data

economy

Akbulak is the center of an agricultural area with a few businesses in the food industry. A brick factory closed a few years ago; A cement works is under construction based on limestone deposits in the area .

The settlement is on the Orenburg - Aqtöbe  - Tashkent railway line (1642 km from Moscow ), which connects Russia via Kazakhstan with Uzbekistan and the other Central Asian republics. The regional road also runs through the village, which also connects Orenburg via Sol-Ilezk with the Kazakh town of Aqtöbe; Akbulak is the last larger town before the Sagartschin – Jaissan border crossing, 40 km away.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Akbulak on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)